This book was compiled from four lectures given by Henry Cardinal
Manning in 1861 on the present crisis of the Catholic Church. He
correctly saw that a grave crisis was approaching and described the
theological basis of the Great Apostasy and the more common
speculations of the Fathers and Doctors of the Church on this most
important subject. Further in several places he cites the Universal
Agreement of the Fathers of the Church, which we know to be an
infallible guide in discerning the truth in doctrinal matters. This
book is even more appropriate today, when many of these prophecies
appear to be being fulfilled. This book is even more important
today, when many fear the advent of Antichrist. Saint Pius X said:
"Who can fail to see that society is at the present time, more than
in any past age, suffering from a terrible and deep-rooted malady
which, developing every day and eating into its inmost being, is
dragging it to destruction? You understand, Venerable Brethren,
what this disease is-apostasy from God... When all this is
considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity
may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those
evils which are reserved for the last days; and that there may be
already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle
speaks." (E Supremi, Encyclical On the Restoration of All Things in
Christ, n. 3, 5; October 4th, 1903) However, there is hope as Saint
John Eudes tells us: "All the holy Fathers agree that after the
death of antichrist the whole world will be converted, and although
some of them assert that the world will last but a few days after
his death, while others say a few months, some authorities insist
that it will continue to exist many years after. St. Catherine of
Sienna, St. Vincent Ferrer, St. Francis of Paula, and a number of
other saints have predicted this ultimate universal conversion." A
small chapter has been added on the authority of the Fathers, when
they are in unanimous agreement, as Manning cites them thusly on
several occasions. Cardinal Manning says: "Next, the Fathers
believed that Antichrist will be of the Jewish race. Such was the
opinion of St. Irenaeus, St. Jerome, and of the author of the work
De Consummatione Mundi, ascribed to St. Hippolytus, and of a writer
of a Commentary on the Epistle to the Thessalonians, ascribed to
St. Ambrose, of many others, who add, that he will be of the tribe
of Dan: as, for instance, St. Gregory the Great, Theodoret, Aretas
of Caesarea, and many more. Such also is the opinion of Bellarmine,
who calls it certain. Lessius affirms that the Fathers, with
unanimous consent, teach as undoubted, that Antichrist will be a
Jew." And further on: "The holy Fathers who have written upon the
subject of Antichrist, and of these prophecies of Daniel, without a
single exception, as far as I know, and they are the Fathers both
of the East and of the West, the Greek and the Latin Church-all of
them unanimously, -say that in the latter end of the world, during
the reign of Antichrist, the holy sacrifice of the altar will
cease. In the work on the end of the world, ascribed to St.
Hippolytus, after a long description of the afflictions of the last
days, we read as follows: "The Churches shall lament with a great
lamentation, for there shall be offered no more oblation, nor
incense, nor worship acceptable to God. The sacred buildings of the
churches shall be as hovels; and the precious body and blood of
Christ shall not be manifest in those days; the Liturgy shall be
extinct; the chanting of psalms shall cease; the reading of Holy
Scripture shall be heard no more.""
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